December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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18.9 For More Information
If you’re interested in frameworks in general, you absolutely must have this book on your shelf:
Framework Design Guidelines, by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley)
There are also a number of good books covering the frameworks discussed in this chapter. If you want to learn more about DotNetNuke, you can’t do much better than this one:
Professional DotNetNuke 4: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET 2.0, by Shaun Walker, Joe Brinkman, Bruce Hopkins, and Scott McCulloch (Wrox)
One of the best books on Mono is a work from O’Reilly:
Mono (Developer’s Notebook), by Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein
O’Reilly also has a great book on the Shared Source CLI (Rotor):
Shared Source CLI Essentials, by Davis Stutz, Ted Neward, and Geoff Shilling
For more information on design patterns, pick up the Gang of Four book:
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley)
Some good Framework-related blogs are:
Monologue (http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/)—an aggregation of numerous Mono project contributors’ blogs.
Enterprise Library Blogs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/comm/entlibblogs/default.aspx)—an aggregation of Brian Button, Tom Hollander, and Edward Jezierski’s blogs. All three are (or were) members of the team at Microsoft responsible for Enterprise Library.
“Zen and the art of Castle maintenance” (http://hammett.castleproject.org)—a blog by Hamilton ...
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